Breakout session 1: A dialogue on evaluating respect for human rights: How do we measure outcomes for people in supply chains?

Company, industry-wide and multi-stakeholder efforts to address human rights risks to workers in global supply chains are a key part of the responsible business agenda. Yet, most measures and indicators, whether used by business to track and report progress or within external disclosure tools, focus on inputs, activities and outputs (e.g. number of audits, suppliers trained or non-compliances found). What is hard to ascertain – and indeed measure – is  whether current efforts are achieving meaningful change for people on the ground. In turn, business leaders (and company stakeholders) can find it hard to evaluate progress and performance which raises conundrums about resource allocation. We will ask our panel: